Bad environment kills

A new study seeks to link pollutants to the spread of prostate cancer

Do it when crops don't

The foetal consequences of pollution

Maharashtra sets up probe into sickle cell anaemia

Genes, Dreams and Reality

Don't blame your genes. Environment and lifestyle cause cancer

Toxins in the womb

Organic pollutants lead to neural defects, study confirms

Happily never after

Caste bar on marriages fuelling genetic disorders in India

Sperm sense

Nemesis of killer drugs

The investigator who took on a pharma giant in the US

Penetrating evidence

Air pollution causes genetic damage among Kolkata residents

Congenital defects

Uranium mine waste imperils villages in Jaduguda

Toxic harvest

Eating rice grown in arsenic-contaminated water can damage genes

State of endosulfan

Ban on the pesticide in Kerala ineffective; more children fall victim, shows survey

Memories of Agent Orange

Endosulfan manufacturers seek time on how to dispose of unused stocks of the pesticide

Supreme Court to meet on November 11

Every breath you take

Pollutants in the air damage more than the lungs, warn health experts

Relief for endosulfan victims

Kerala government presses for a nation-wide ban on the pesticide

India softens its stand on endosulfan

Endosulfan: meet in Geneva begins, India still in denial

Sharad Pawar says many states had asked him not to ban the pesticide

Healthcare in Malwa in shambles

When battered people took on the pesticide industry

Basic Instinct

In a simultaneous press release issued on Monday, 26 June 2000, the Human Genome Project, an international government-funded project, and Celera …

Can science explain blue skin of Lord Krishna?

Religion interprets blue skin as the aura of a spiritual body; science considers it a rare genetic disorder 

It's mama's fault

Scientists suggest a disorder that causes periods of ecstasy and depression is passed on through mothers.